We don’t know how important tranquility is to Kirby’s cardiac condition…
But today Washington State Republican Party Chair Kirby Wilbur, by law, had to stand for election for state party chair and he had two qualified opponents.
Dave “Ike” Eichner and Mitch Short.
This is Doug Parris reporting, on site, from Olympia’s Red Lion motel.
FIRST BALLOT:
114 VOTES WERE CAST
58 were needed to win.
Vote Totals:
WILBUR 56
EICHNER 37
SHORT 21
Rules of the election require a majority to win and for Short to be eliminated from the second ballot.
Now we know that we have less than 50% total establishment vote. Even though Kirby wins, we have answers we need.
This Saturday’s RLC state event is called RLC (2014 KICK OFF) for a reason. January 26, 9am, Yakima’s Howard Johnson’s.
Filling our Suburban (still have empty seats) for the trip to Yakima from Skamania and we’ve got a couple Yakima seniors planning to come too. Hope to see the patriots from The Reagan Wing there too! (bring your parka and sunglasses you fellow moldy westsiders)
Congrats to the Liberty lovers all over the state for making a strong showing. The days of ignoring this fine group of Republicans are over.
56 county-level GOP leaders want to repeat their failure for another term and reward Kirby for gushing support for the ultra-liberal Finkbeiner?!? That’s a sign of insanity.
EXACTLY!
I am not sure how Mr. Wilbur’s win makes liberty stronger (as at least one commenter implies). Wilbur’s victory was clearly a setback for ethical political discourse and action. I am disappointed that direct flaunting of back room political antics is still tolerated, let alone rewarded, as in this case. Shame on you so-called “‘republic’ans” who returned a despot to power.
Hey Doug , we need to find out who voted against Kirby in the first round and then voted for him in the second! Because they need to be exposed! Another thing is why could we NOT have figured out HOW to have only ONE candidate running against him so that we could have won? This is something we are plenty aware of…splitting the vote! We need to end that!
There is no implication that somehow Kirby’s election makes liberty stronger, but that his opposition has clearly grown to the point that he will no longer be able to pretend it doesn’t exist, as he has grown accustomed to doing thus far.
Well, I won’t split hairs over that one, but I will stake my life that Kirby will continue to ignore the group to which you refer. Someone wiser than I once said that; “saying it don’t make it so.”
There is too much of a goodwill vacuum for the Washington State GOP with cronies like Kirby still in charge. So now it’s best for conservatives to organize separately just as the liberals did with their GOP infiltration group, the ‘Mainstream Republicans’.
There may be more than one such group, so the challenge will be in maintaining a coalition solid enough to finally eject the liberal racketeers.
I tend to agree with the concept of “organizing separately” (but) with the intent to develop strategies to maintain enough common ground with other politically conservative individuals and groups to field viable candidates who can win elections. That takes support from less conservative Independents, Republicans, and the occasional “enlightened” Dem.
“maintain enough common ground” is what Big-Government and Hedonist liberals of the present K.Wilbur regime claim they are doing. To use a particularly glaring example, that’s what they claim they are doing with the ultra-liberal Finkbeiner. That was a first-ever in my memory for the GOP to be so liberal it backed the same candidate as the abortion industry and the enviro-fascists.
I guess I am just optimistic that we have some common ground like: freedom (liberty); virtue; efficient (minimal), accountable government; individual accountability…
While liberal members of the GOP were busy pushing for ever more compromise, the Hard Left has been busy taking over the Government Schools and brainwashing as many youth as possible. Until the people of the GOP can wake up and admit that (opposite of what McKenna was doing) then the effort is lost.
Based on the just-elected GOP leadership in most Washington counties, at the state level, and even the hedonist-blessing charter of the RLC, I don’t hold much hope for presently constituted GOP leadership in this state. Those of us who have stepped back from an increasingly liberal WA GOP for the past 30 years are either going to organize outside the GOP sewer, or leave this increasingly accursed state.